I feel more bored nowadays…
No, not really
i think the users might actually be slightly increasing but the doomerism is dominating
All redditors coming here
I’ve been here for about two years (just on a different instance now). I feel it has actually grown quite a bit since I first started, but the niche communities are dying rapidly while the main communities grow. As someone who participated in a lot of niche communities on Reddit before Apollo went offline, I really feel kinda lost. I really hope people put more effort into those communities and hope those who are still on Reddit while using Lemmy encourage frustrated users to join us here.
MY BAD, I’LL SPEAK A LITTLE LOUDER (:
… I need to post more lol
Not sure about Lemmy, but I have noticed a very recent influx in loops.video content recently, especially in my native language. That’s probably because Loops is starting to be usable now. There’s some YouTubers I already followed and even some local progressive politicians. This year a project named “digital day of independence” started, that educates people every month about how to switch from big tech, which probably also has something to do with it.
To be frank the overwhelming amount of trump news is starting to make me feel drained
I should post some art on the furry communities to cheer up the placeWe don’t have enough small speciality communities yet unfortunately. Bring the furries and the cheer. I miss all the professional/trade subs. Don’t see many of them active on here.
I’ve been here a year or more now, it seems busier than when I started but never became the “reddit alternative” that so many people promised. Not that I was actually expecting it.
I still have accounts on other major platforms but I’m far more restricted what I can say in more commercial sites like reddit or youtube now, I notice I get shadow’d if I so much as utter a political take that isn’t approved for mainstream consumption. Lemmy still has a degree of freedom that reminds me of the early internet, but I know the site’s days are numbered, like everyone.
Since I got here, there are more and more bots and shills and astroturfers creeping in, and I don’t mean “I don’t like what this person said so they must be a bot” way, but investigated and 99% sure they’re fabricated accounts, especially the ones that popped up everywhere during things like the New York elections with account-ages all made at the same time, etc.
Lemmy is just one of a dwindling list of forums and sites that preserve the old way of internetting, but it’s a dying thing. Younger people growing up on the internet don’t chat on forums, they don’t scroll reddit even. They have custom feeds on custom aggregators and they socialize with discord groups about specific topics and games and are far less involved with the idea of public discourse.
Reddit will die. Lemmy will die. All the old ways will pass, and new things will emerge. I’ve seen it over and over, and have ridden through them all.
I am a newcomer, lile only had an account for a monnth now, did it used to be more lively?
I was here since June 12, 2023 (this is not my first account)…
I feel like there was an explosion at the beginning, then it dropped to like half of the activity…
Then it just slowly and slowly declining till like this past month or so when it just had a sharp crash
I guess this place is too ML-Adjacent that normies didn’t wanna deal with it…
I mean they probably didn’t even learn of the block function and just saw the front page and noped out lol
Pls stay tho… I hate authoritarians so much, I don’t wanna deal with dictators like reddit
I joined a few of the equivalents to my usual subreddits.
No posts in like 3 years on most of them. It’s lively enough on the tech and meme pages, but nobody here seems to have the same hobbies as me. Hell even /trees is dead, do none of y’all smoke weed?
Never even seen weed irl…
That might also be because it’s been defederated from your instance.
I’m new to this whole thing, are you saying if I was on another instance I would see more posts from some subs and less from others?
Yeah, I really want my friends and family to switch over to Pixfed from instagram/facebook.
I feel like it will be eventually easier to get my close friends to switch over to matrix form discord though. I feel like “real” people dont post on instagram anymore anyways and it’s all just influencers and corporations
I think Fluxer is a better choice as a Discord alternative. The interface and paradigm are much better.
God no. It’s been a slow grind, but I think it’s growing!
I’ve noticed I spend less time on Lemmy than I did on Reddit. Some of that may have to do with content, but I think it’s mostly Lemmy isn’t manipulating what I’m looking at to keep the dopamine hits coming. It definitely feels like withdrawal at times.
I am learning to appreciate the joy of opening Lemmy after I checked it a few hours ago and not seeing anything new and having the freedom to close the app again.
Absolutely this. I banned the big platforms from my phone and only use Fediverse apps now. When I opened Instagram it kinda felt like when I had a relapse and became flooded with sadness, rage and Weltschmerz. Here I check for a couple of minutes, still my conditioning to reach for scrolling and move on with my day.
And whenever I write a comment here I’m not scared to regret it soon after.
Just like the good old days. Check facebook book for the party and bounce. Long before algos and built in games.
Yeah, it keeps me honest. If there’s nothing more to look at, I’m more apt to pick up a book or work on the side project more.
Not me, but it’s important to remember that Lemmy doesn’t just feed you an algo. You have to actually post things.
Nah, I’m just checking it more often, which is a sign I need to take some preventative corrections towards my mental health now that I think of it
Hey now, no need to call me out so hard lol
Not quieter, no, but the memes are all gone now. It’s just “This is how fucked the world is” now. I miss the funny memes.
I post funny animations to !animation@piefed.social sometimes, and there’s !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz for some other fun stuff :D
There’s also !mealtimevideos@lemmy.cafe.
Thanks, subscribed.
Make sure you’re following some fun stuff too. Otherwise it just gets depressing.
Personally I try to follow only fun stuff! Subscribed/Home feed for fun, All feed for doom and gloom.
Ooohhh smart
there’s plenty of comics content posted across a range of communities…
I post daily and have a fairly steady amount of up votes and comments. This time of year interaction dies down pretty noticeably. I used to think it was me and I was doing something wrong, but people are just doing spring stuff and not on here as much. They’ll be back. There’s a couple periods a year where it happens. It’s just more noticeable here since we have less people.
I noticed it too with the upvotes on my content. A few weeks ago my predictions when I hit a certain mark of upvotes were pretty accurate, but now the amount of upvotes in the first 12h dropped notably.
Your mention of spring sound like a plausible reasoning to me.
I used to discuss it with the people on c/fedigrow because it would bum me out. I thought I had upset people somehow.
They reminded me of things like spring break from school and people doing family things and all that. I don’t have kids or close family, so a lot of that kind of thing slips my mind that others have to do things in relation to that.
And once you see they do eventually come back, you get used to it.
I would feel the same as you if I were the only poster in the communities. But as there is at least one other (MentalEdge) and the dent is similar, I don’t need to worry (about my quality; but still if the community as a whole is running fine if they don’t come back after a while).
You 2 do a great job with your communities! I’m very jealous you have such a counterpart. That would be such a relief.
Gotta build the community. This is not a bot driven Russian/american Propaganda machine. Its humans. A lot like forums from ye olden days, which were far better.
Real humans aren’t posting click bait 2000 times a minute.
Lemmy has a growing bot/AI/Astroturfer problem, at least in the political subs. It’s going to be everywhere, the only thing holding it back from flooding lemmy full-force is there’s less traffic here so less to gain, but as the tech and technique gets easier, no place online will be isolated.
Real human posting live from the toilet once a day
I honestly don’t mind. Before this was the replacement go to site after the API fiasco elsewhere. Now I feel like coming on here only makes me sad and depressed; so I stopped coming on here even though I was mostly a lurker. I stopped getting any enjoyment from browsing the internet or my old internet hobbies.
